Chestertown, MD

After a busy Friday night drinking until 3am (Chris!) and a busy Saturday paintballing at 8.30am (Chris!) and going to an engagement party in the evening (both of us!), I decided that I didn't want to just sit at home on Sunday. So even though Chris would have much rather laid about on the sofa all day we drove to the lovely town of Chestertown.

It was about a 90 minute drive away over the Annapolis Bay Bridge. The town is famous for it's Georgian architecture and the guide at the visitor's center recommended that we did a walking tour so that's what we did. The guide described the town as what Annapolis used to look like years ago and it did look fairly untouched with some beautiful buildings.

We walked from the dock up and down the cute little streets. It was such a sleepy little town, there was no one around! Unfortunately the thing that I find about these places is it's quite hard to take photos of the nice streets and houses because there are parked cars all the way up the streets. It was the same in Charleston and Savannah. I managed to get just a few photos though and then we found a nice little bakery to sit in.




On our way home we had a quick stop at a shopping outlet then stopped for an early dinner at Hemmingways a seafood restaurant on the banks of Chesapeake Bay. The restaurant looks out over the Bay Bridge in one direction and the marina in the other. It was a really nice spot, we sat outside on the balcony eating some great crab cakes, shrimp and fish watching people arrive on their boats, moor up and come into the restaurant for a dinner before sailing off again, what a lovely way to spend a Sunday!